St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-09
A NOZZLE BEQUEsT.
Miss Wolfe Leaves Her Pictures and
$500. 900 to the Metropolitan NJ us
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NEW York. April S.-The following is
an extract from the will of the late Miss
Catharine l.. Wolfe, beQueathing her col
lection of pictures and 5000, 900 to the
Met rOpoltan Museum of Art:
l give and bequeath to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, charted by the state Of New
York, and located in the city Of New York,
all articles of the following description that
may belong to me at my death, and be then
situated or remaining IN the city of New
York, namely: My entire collection of mod
ern oil paintings, with their frames. and also
my water-cOlor drawings with their frames,
which paintings include the original por-
trait of my late father, John David Wolfe,
by limiting, and my own portrait by Alex
ander Cabanel, all of which works Of art by
this section OF my will disposed of shall be
properly selected and scheduled by my ex-
ecutors and shall thereafter and within six
months after my decease be delivered by
them TO said Metropolitan Museum of Art as
its own absolute property and subject 10 its
absolute disposal, but with the desire and
hope on my part that the same may be had
held and exhibited by that institution for the
enjoyment and recreation of all who may
frequent the rooms, and also with view to
the education and cultivation of the public
taste for the fine arts. This gift, however, is
upon express condition that the trustees and
managers Of said institution shall provide
and set apart exclusively for the said collec-
ton a suitable, well-lighted, fire-proof apart
ment gallery or separate space where the
paintings and water colorS, drawings herein
mentioned, shall be perfectly arranged and
displayed, and provided also that the said
collection shall be designated and continue to
be known as the Catharina Lorillard Wolfe
collection; and in order to provide for the
better preservation of the said paintings and
drawings and the future increase of said col
lnf.ft ion
the sum of $500, goo in money (or in ste clSs or
securities deemed by them to be of that valued
upon trust, to be held and kept invested in
United States stocks or bonds in good credit
or other securities strictly approved for the
investment of trust fluids, and to receive the
interest income thereof and apply the net
amount of the same as it shall from time to
time accrue to the use of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art during the lives of David
Wolfe Bishop and Louis Lorrillard, two of
said executors, and the life of the survivor of
them, to the intent that such income
shall be applied from time to time by said in
stitution for such judicious repairs as may
be necessary to the said works OF art, and
any surplus thereof to be expended for the
purchase of other original modern oil paint
lngS, either by native or foreign artists, but
only for works of acknowledged merit and
superior excellence, both in subject and ex-
ecution in the departments of art known as
landscapes and general subjects. and which
shall become additions to the original collee-
lions hereby beQueatbed and shall continue
to be part of the collection designated and
known as aforesaid. And l further provide
that should the said Metropolitan Museum of
Art in the judgment of my executors. have
or acquire the legal right under existing or
future statutes to continue to hold the said
| fund in perpetuity on the trust and for the
| purposes herein expressed, it shall then be
| the duty of my executors to pay or deliver
| over said fund to said institution in trust and
| in such manner as to provide that it shall
continue to be held and its income applied
| in perpetuity for the uses aforesaid